THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
Pheasant
My dogs were walking me through the parkland one day. There was a shoot happening on the farside, down in the valley. Two pheasants popped out of the undergrowth near by, bolting past me, away from the shoot with rather smug expressions on their faces. Crafty little birds.
ROCKET ROOSTER
Cockerel
One afternoon, I was walking one of my dogs in the peaceful parkland. Suddenly the silence was shattered by a noise in the distance. A cockerel came sprinting across the grass and fields a little way ahead of us, crowing at the top of its lungs, at two in the afternoon! It disappeared into the woods but we could still hear him as he ran for the horizon.
NOBODY'S FOOL
Fox
I was driving along a back road one day when a fox jumped out of bushes onto the road in front on me. Thankfully I was able to avoid it as it loped to other side. I managed to stop and a get a good look at it.
The cheeky devil had stopped up on the verge, sat down and was just looking at me like it knew it was being mischevious.
